Xapian Reviews and details

Social recommendations and mentions

• Making a huge collection of PDF's searchable (They are OCR'd already)

  Recoll is free/open source (GPL) that can index PDFs and search them very quickly. It uses Xapian under the hood. I have over 165,000 documents indexed on an old laptop running Linux and can query them all in a split second. Source: 7 months ago

• An alternative to Elasticsearch that runs on a few MBs of RAM

  + xapian which has been around a while, and while gpl licensed, is quite capable https://xapian.org/. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• ZincSearch – lightweight alternative to Elasticsearch written in Go

  Tangentially related if you need search without the clustering and high availability story of elastic search and friends I highly recommend Xapian. Its like the SQLite of search. Single library that provides the basic set of features you would expect in a quality search experience: facets, ranked search, boolean operators, stemming etc etc. https://xapian.org/. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Need CLI tool that can handle large txt files and another tool that can conduct a lightning fast search of disk files.

  For fast searching, it usually requires indexing the files in question. There are a number of text-file indexing solutions, many of which use xapian, sphinx, or lucene/solr under the hood. Based on conditions (watching files/directories, cron jobs, new-mail triggers, etc), they'll add/remove files to the index, and you can then use a corresponding command to compose queries across that data. If it's indexed, it... Source: about 2 years ago

• Lawsuit filed alleging Google is paying Apple to stay out of the search business

  There is also xapian/recoll https://xapian.org/ which works great for "desktop" search. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• MeiliSearch: A Minimalist Full-Text Search Engine

  A reminder about Xapian which the author did not include (it is only a library) https://xapian.org/. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• Replacing Elasticsearch with Rust and SQLite

  I’m always surprised when people haven’t heard of Xapian which is also in this space. I tell people Xapian is the SQLite of search. https://xapian.org/. - Source: Hacker News / almost 3 years ago